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448,035 | 1,048,771 | 43,961 | 7 | Not the director's cut - - but still a powerful film with fine performances . . . | The original cut of THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE has never been seen - - and probably does not exist - - but this is the truncated version of the John Huston film and it's still powerful stuff . It's an examination of courage among men under intense fire - - such as the infantry men in the Civil War , about whom writer Ste... |
447,273 | 1,048,771 | 330,373 | 7 | Richly imaginative , darker and scarier than most of the other Potter films . . . | DANIEL RADCLIFFE and his company of wizards are having the scariest ride of all in this dark , dangerous and yet fun-filled thriller with absolutely stupefying special effects and some slam bang cinematography that is nothing short of dazzling . Readers of the novel may quip at all the material that couldn't be include... |
448,085 | 1,048,771 | 70,510 | 7 | Enchanting Depression-era comedy . . . | True , TATUM O'NEIL won an Oscar for her role as Addie Pray in PAPER MOON and fully deserved it . Her dad , RYAN O'NEIL must have been proud of her but his only reward was a Golden Globe nomination . The con artist and little girl theme had been used before in Damon Runyon's famous comedy " Little Miss Marker " with Sh... |
446,658 | 1,048,771 | 252,480 | 7 | Dark exploration of man's inhumanity to man . . . | Despite all the realism depicted in THE GREY ZONE amid the actual day to day operations of a Nazi prison camp , there's a certain stage quality in the dialog that serves as a reminder that you're watching the screen version of a stage play and not what should seem more like a true life documentary . That's the fault of... |
445,261 | 1,048,771 | 70,511 | 7 | Unflinching look at brutal penal colony . . . gripping but exhausting . . . | Brutal treatment in a penal colony has been explored on the screen before in such earlier films as I WAS A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG , but never has there been a more graphic expose of the sort of conditions prisoners faced under the worst sort of environment . At times the film is extremely harrowing to watch , and a... |
447,207 | 1,048,771 | 21,884 | 7 | James Whales ' creation is still a spine-tingler . . . | The moment COLIN CLIVE speaks that immortal line : " It's alive ! It's alive ! " you get the kind of chill that makes watching FRANKENSTEIN such fun . Atmospherically , it ranks with the best of the old B & W Universal horror films , although today , watching it produces rather distracting visions of what Gene Wilder a... |
446,308 | 1,048,771 | 35,105 | 7 | Delightful comedy from B'way stage hit . . . Russell at her best . . . | ROSALIND RUSSELL was always at her best in comedies and here she had a role that got her an Oscar nomination for Best Actress in 1942 - - and it's easy to see why . She's downright hilarious as the gal from Ohio with writing ambitions and a pretty blonde sister ( JANET BLAIR ) with a penchant for attracting men and tro... |
446,392 | 1,048,771 | 65,207 | 7 | Dandy espionage during wartime . . . scales the heights . . . | This well-titled thriller indeed goes WHERE EAGLES DARE and then some . When men aren't climbing mountain peaks , they're fighting atop cable cars and doing so many other stunts on a rescue mission that it becomes the ultimate in action / spy drama of the cleverest kind . And why not ? It's based on Alistair McLean's t... |
445,971 | 1,048,771 | 26,138 | 7 | Quality sequel is visually even more stunning than " Frankenstein " . . . | Even better than the original . Add to the quality of FRANKENSTEIN some even better visuals ( German expressionism again in the sets ) , the grander look and concept of the whole story with the monster humanized in a believable way , and the music of Franz Waxman which highlights all of the most dramatic moments , espe... |
447,538 | 1,048,771 | 337,978 | 7 | A rolllercoaster thrill ride from beginning to end . . . the franchise is alive and kicking . . . | Once again BRUCE WILLIS in the guise of John McClane saves the world from professional hackers out to disrupt the U . S . government and shut down the financial structure completely - - an act of revenge by a former insider ( TIMOTHY OLYPHANT ) whose warnings went unheeded by those in charge . And the action is practic... |
447,001 | 1,048,771 | 39,037 | 7 | One that I missed along the way . . . at least it's an offbeat A & C yarn . . . | There are some genuinely amusing moments throughout THE TIME OF THEIR LIVES and the idea of setting an A & C comedy in the Restoration period is an unusual one , to put it mildly . But not all of it is as spontaneously funny as you might wish it to be , although fans of the duo will probably not complain . A decided as... |
447,986 | 1,048,771 | 61,418 | 7 | Famous criminal pair make their crimes seem like a joyride . . . | Aside from being a vivid recreation of the 1930s Depression era , this story of the world's most famous bank robbers is funny , sad , melodramatic , and ultimately tragic , in madcap fashion with lots of style and then some . No wonder it's so highly regarded as the cream of the crop when it comes to crime capers . I'm... |
447,289 | 1,048,771 | 43,792 | 7 | Another good collaboration of Leisen and Brackett . . . | Charles Brackett and Mitchell Leisen collaborated on a few successful films , including the dramatic TO EACH HIS OWN ( ' 46 ) , but here the accent is on a rollicking romantic comedy starring GENE TIERNEY , JOHN LUND , THELMA RITTER and MIRIAM HOPKINS . It's a spin on the mistaken identity theme , with Ritter inadverte... |
447,468 | 1,048,771 | 30,341 | 7 | Hitchcock pre-Hollywood is still Hitchcock . . . | One of the oddest things about THE LADY VANISHES is that Hitch doesn't make his usual trademark appearance until one of the last scenes at a train station . Once he got to make Hollywood films , he made sure he appeared early on so that audiences wouldn't be on the lookout for him and be distracted from the story . Thi... |
446,971 | 1,048,771 | 368,658 | 7 | Enjoyed it much more than " Shakespeare in Love " . . . | 17th Century period films done by the British are always so impeccably cast and acted that you're taken back to that time when actors played all the roles ( including the female leads ) and women were forbidden to trod the boards . All this changed when King Charles II ( RUPERT EVERETT in too brief a role ) decided it ... |
445,956 | 1,048,771 | 66,344 | 7 | Thank you very much Albert Finney and company . . . | Purists won't be too happy with whatever omissions were made in the Dickens tale to include some harmless songs by Leslie Bricusse , but ALBERT FINNEY ( in age make-up ) hams it up with a sense of humor as Scrooge - - and with a cast including EDITH EVANS , KENNETH MORE and ALEC GUINNESS ( as Marley's Ghost ) , you can... |
445,351 | 1,048,771 | 60,934 | 7 | Steve McQueen remains the focal point in ambitious , sometimes rambling film . . . | STEVE McQUEEN makes a completely believable machinist's mate aboard a U . S . Navy gunboat who finds himself enmeshed in the politics of unrest that existed in 1926 China during the period of the Boxer Rebellion . It's probably one of the finest roles of his career - - honest , vexating , and completely true to the emo... |
445,986 | 1,048,771 | 39,320 | 7 | Tracy meets my favorite " gruesome " horror star . . . | The last of the RKO series starring RALPH BYRD , it has him hunting down Gruesome ( BORIS KARLOFF ) after a bank robbery in which a gas freezes the bank's customers and clerks in mid-position while the robbery takes place . It's a novel idea and nicely staged , as ANNE GWYNNE ( who plays Tess Trueheart ) enters an encl... |
445,374 | 1,048,771 | 30,418 | 7 | MGM's lavish look at the French Revolution . . . a Shearer triumph . . . | MGM's lavishly budgeted look at the French Revolution during the reign of King Louis and his famously selfish MARIE ANTOINETTE spares no expense in detailing the grim background of court conspiracies and the people's unrest that led to their downfall . Too bad none of this eye-popping splendor wasn't captured in Techni... |
445,492 | 1,048,771 | 35,020 | 7 | Football vs . academics . . . excellent performances by Fonda , de Havilland and Carson . . . | Debate over whether a professor should be allowed to read a controversial letter to his class forms the subject for this spirited football vs . academics comedy originally a stage play by Elliot Nugent and James Thurber . The screen version moves briskly but it's all played at a " full steam ahead " kind of tempo popul... |
448,010 | 1,048,771 | 35,019 | 7 | Improbable but amusing comedy gets a lift from Rogers , Milland and Lynn . . . | A saucy comedy about a woman not having enough money to leave New York City to return to the mid-west by train , is made even more enjoyable because the leads are played by GINGER ROGERS , RAY MILLAND and DIANA LYNN , all of whom have the benefit of a very good script written by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder and di... |
446,659 | 1,048,771 | 256,009 | 7 | Spellbinding . . . a truly fascinating ghost story . . . | It's a pleasure to come across a truly great horror story , a ghostly tale involving a group of Spanish boys orphaned during the Spanish Civil War in the late ' 30s at a remote outpost where they are sheltered by two caretakers and a handyman . The handyman is Jacinto ( played brilliantly by EDUARDO NORIEGA ) who is in... |
446,461 | 1,048,771 | 30,440 | 7 | Preparation for " Pinocchio " evident in underwater scenes . . . | Disney was busy trying to lift the art of animation to new heights by having his artists do an " under the sea " type of thing , long before anyone would be seeing films like PINOCCHIO or THE LITTLE MERMAID . MERBABIES is thin on plot but the art work is gorgeous and the visual elements are what make it worth watching ... |
445,692 | 1,048,771 | 39,211 | 7 | Robert Wise directs a study in corruption , greed and murder . . . | There are a number of surprises in BORN TO KILL , but the biggest one for me was seeing that the director of this film noir masterpiece was Robert Wise , who gave the world THE SOUND OF MUSIC . I never suspected he was this versatile , although he did do several other " creepy " stories earlier in his career . Most of ... |
445,565 | 1,048,771 | 105,236 | 7 | Graphic crime film from Tarantino . . . | It took me fifteen years to get around to viewing RESERVOIR DOGS and my interest was piqued only because I've come to admire HARVEY KEITEL as an actor . And I might as well admit , I'm not a fan of Quentin Tarantino either , although I love a good crime film . This one has to do with tough gang members talking about th... |
447,840 | 1,048,771 | 91,419 | 7 | Screwball musical is a laugh riot . . . Rick Moranis screamingly funny . . . | LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS , from the Broadway musical of the same name , is a stylized , very funny comedy about a man-eating plant that thrives on eating flesh whenever it can . Rick Moranis is Seymour Krelborn , the nerd who works in a florist shop and is enamored of the shop assistant , Audrey - - so much so , that he ... |
445,566 | 1,048,771 | 83,806 | 7 | Twist upon twist makes an absorbing mystery even better . . . | Nothing's more enjoyable for me than a who-dun-it or suspense tale that keeps you guessing throughout as to how the whole thing will end . And that's precisely what happens in DEATHTRAP , based on a chilling play by Ira Levin ( " Rosemary's Baby " ) . And in it , MICHAEL CAINE and CHRISTOPHER REEVE get to do the kind o... |
447,977 | 1,048,771 | 47,885 | 7 | Ford is excellent in still timely drama based on the Evans Hunter book . . . | GLENN FORD is very effective as a straight arrow schoolteacher caught up in the discipline problems of one of the city's worst schools and striving to bring his own sense of decency to students who reject him at every turn . The story of his crusade , from Evan Hunter's best-seller , is still timely today when just suc... |
446,582 | 1,048,771 | 34,891 | 7 | Wartime experiences of British men during early days of WWII . . . | The downed crew of a British destroyer have plenty of time to dwell on fond memories of their past as they cling to a raft on the open sea during the early days of WWII . Noel Coward's IN WHICH WE SERVE is a superior treatment of war - - at sea and at home - - as seen from the viewpoint of various crew members . NOEL C... |
445,290 | 1,048,771 | 21,505 | 7 | Interesting , if improbable , tale in typical Chaney mode . . . | LON CHANEY delivers an interesting performance ( especially when posing as a kindly old woman ) , but not even the great Chaney can overcome all the defects in this remake of the 1925 silent . For starters , the performances around him include two extremely bad examples of early screen acting - - from awkward Lila Lee ... |
445,405 | 1,048,771 | 39,251 | 7 | A cat concerto like no other . . . | You'll never listen to Hungarian Rhapsody No . 2 again without thinking of this classic MGM cartoon with Tom in concert mode performing at the Hollywood Bowl in formal attire while Jerry is asleep inside the piano . That is , until the performance begins . Then , as the music becomes more and more vigorous , Jerry adds... |
446,541 | 1,048,771 | 35,749 | 7 | One of my favorite Betty Grable musicals . . . | CONEY ISLAND was such a successful Fox musical that seven years later it was turned into another starring vehicle for Grable called WABASH AVENUE . It's a breezy turn-of-the-century show biz tale about two Coney Island hucksters and the tricks they play on each other to win patrons at their establishments . Betty is th... |
445,879 | 1,048,771 | 43,465 | 7 | Kirk Douglas in another strong performance . . . | KIRK DOUGLAS deserved at least an Oscar nomination for his role as the high-strung detective who sees things in terms of black and white - - no grays in between - - while co-star ELEANOR PARKER did receive a Best Actress nomination for her role as his wife with a secret in her past . William Wyler has taken the stage p... |
447,343 | 1,048,771 | 25,748 | 7 | Leslie Howard shines in title role . . . | LESLIE HOWARD and MERLE OBERON both shine in this thoroughly entertaining film classic about the man who was an effete British gentleman by day ( Sir Percy ) and a noble avenger who saved many of his countrymen from the guillotine . As the dandy , Leslie is an unmitigated delight , delivering some ripely amusing lines ... |
446,046 | 1,048,771 | 39,591 | 7 | One of the more successful attempts to film a Hemingway story . . . | THE MACOMBER AFFAIR has to be rated a success for the mere fact that it finally brings a Hemingway story to the screen pretty much intact and the way he wrote it . GREGORY PECK may not be the perfect choice to play the guide escorting a quarrelsome JOAN BENNETT and ROBERT PRESTON on a safari , but he acquits himself we... |
447,929 | 1,048,771 | 74,285 | 7 | Chilling horror story of an unusual night at the prom . . . | CARRIE probably represents the sort of outsider feelings author Stephen King had as a nerdy teen-ager in high school . He was able to reach into those cruel childhood memories to create a girl with telekinetic powers that gives her the ability to wreak revenge on her tormentors in a big , over-the-top sort of way . And... |
445,966 | 1,048,771 | 18,051 | 7 | The best of the Harold Lloyd comedies . . . simply wonderful . . . | I kept thinking how he deserves recognition as one of the great silent comedians alongside Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin - - especially with his wonderful work in the well-crafted THE KID BROTHER . The simple plot has him as the youngest and rather nerdy kid brother with his two strapping brothers towering over him... |
446,342 | 1,048,771 | 18,054 | 7 | Early De Mille epic is reverent , ambitious , artistic presentation . . . | The silent factor doesn't hurt THE KING OF KINGS . As seen on TCM with an appropriate background score and all of the two-strip Technicolor scenes intact , it's stunning visually and impressive from beginning to end . Of course , some of the acting belongs strictly to the silent period but overall the performances are ... |
446,037 | 1,048,771 | 109,446 | 7 | The boy who knew too much . . . good thriller . . . | John Grisham knew how to milk the most out of a situation that has a boy who knew too much ( BRAD RENFRO ) about a Mafia murder , relentlessly pursued by the killers while seeking the help of a female lawyer ( SUSAN SARANDON in one of her better roles ) . It's the timeworn tale of a deadly hunt that has been done time ... |
445,315 | 1,048,771 | 57,076 | 7 | Good Bond action film never sets foot in Russia . . . | The location photography for FROM Russia WITH LOVE is full of splendid shots of Istanbul , Turkey , Italy and Scotland , but never gets near the territory mentioned in the title . Nevertheless , this is a gripping cold war spy story with Bond once again fighting SPECTRE's villains and encountering beautiful girls along... |
445,854 | 1,048,771 | 74,452 | 7 | Entertaining war drama with plenty of explosive moments . . . | John Sturges directed some fine movies in his time and THE EAGLE HAS LANDED is certainly one of them . It's a shame it isn't a better known war film , its fictional plot about an attempt to kidnap Winston Churchill coming from a best-seller by Jack Higgins . The plot is heavy going at times , particularly the whole fir... |
445,512 | 1,048,771 | 35,608 | 7 | Stirring , well-acted , realistic tribute to the U . S . Merchant Marines . . . | Despite plenty of wartime propaganda and the usual amount of clichés and other staples of WWII action melodramas , ACTION IN THE NORTH Atlantic is given a boost by some of the best staged action scenes ever featured in a Warner Bros . movie of that era . The realism is startling considering that special effects then in... |
446,661 | 1,048,771 | 91,763 | 7 | The ugliness of war as seen by an infantry platoon . . . | I saw this one years after it was made and the biggest imprint on me was making me feel depressed after watching how the men struggled to keep their sanity in a war that made no sense to anyone at the time . CHARLIE SHEEN is excellent as the college youth whose innocence about man's inhumanity to man gradually changes ... |
446,104 | 1,048,771 | 30,044 | 7 | Flynn shines in serious drama of WWI aviators . . . | DAWN PATROL was a forerunner of the " men facing war " kind of dramas that became a steady source of entertainment in books and films of the decades that followed , particularly after WWII . But this takes place during World War I in 1915 , when aviation was still young and men in the flying machines were sent into bat... |
447,600 | 1,048,771 | 29,870 | 7 | Cagney and O'Brien at their finest . . . | You can't miss with Michael Curtiz at the helm , Max Steiner doing the music , Ann Sheridan and Humphrey Bogart in supporting roles , the Dead End Kids for " the kids " , Pat O'Brien as a priest fighting gangland crime , and James Cagney as Rocky Sullivan , doing one of his best gangster impersonations . It's a tough c... |
447,928 | 1,048,771 | 57,163 | 7 | Paul Newman in another role that fits him like a glove . . . | The towering performance that PAUL NEWMAN gives as Hud is matched by all the other performances in this superior morality tale about a no-gooder , a lecherous heel with nothing but attitude and charm to spare when he isn't being a bad boy . Paul Newman settles down in this role the way he did as Cool Hand Luke , giving... |
445,569 | 1,048,771 | 57,197 | 7 | Rich fantasy in glorious color long before CGI effects . . . | The rating is higher than my usual mark for films of this type because the stop-motion photography is far better than that used only six years previously for THE 7TH VOYAGE OF SINBAD . Ray Harryhausen had obviously improved his technique of animating skeletons and giant-sized statues ( Talon ) , to the point where the ... |
445,964 | 1,048,771 | 18,397 | 7 | John Gilbert in an offbeat and interesting Tod Browning film . . . | JOHN GILBERT was toward the end of his career as a romantic leading man at the age of 27 in THE SHOW , co-starring once again with his leading lady from THE BIG PARADE , RENEE ADOREE . POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEADThe story has moments of interest when it deals with Gilbert's role as a circus barker for side shows that attra... |
447,714 | 1,048,771 | 29,844 | 7 | Faithful version with Tommy Kelly an almost perfect Tom Sawyer . . . | Selznick's THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER is an extremely faithful version of the famous Mark Twain story , generally well acted and cast with the kind of precision the producer was famous for . TOMMY KELLY , despite some drawbacks in his acting , makes an almost perfect Tom Sawyer . He's a bit too quick in flashing the ... |
447,569 | 1,048,771 | 39,881 | 7 | Tense crime thriller in gritty noir style . . . | Some nice shadowy photography by John Alton and a well-paced storyline directed with style by Anthony Mann , makes for a diverting crime melodrama in crisp documentary style that was popular in the early to mid-'40s . Think BOOMERANG , THE HOUSE ON 92nd STREET , 13 ROUE MADELEINE and other Fox melodramas of that era . ... |
446,651 | 1,048,771 | 43,137 | 7 | James Stewart finds his niche in sturdy western role . . . | This complicated western was a milestone in the career of JAMES STEWART after his return from war service , wanting to change his image by doing a western , which is largely regarded as the reason for the influx of westerns in the ' 50s since it's very impressive . Too bad it wasn't photographed in Technicolor . Stewar... |
447,331 | 1,048,771 | 26,056 | 7 | Fred MacMurray almost steals the spotlight . . . | ALICE ADAMS is the film I'd heard about for years as one of Hepburn's best early films so when I had the chance to watch it recently on TCM I took advantage of it . From a novel by Booth Tarkington , it concerns a young woman anxious to connect socially with the right people who manages to attract the attention of a ha... |
446,403 | 1,048,771 | 43,148 | 7 | Hilarious demonstration of how not to perform shop work . . . | The Department of Labor was behind this amusing short wherein actor / writer DAVE O'BRIEN plays a bumbling steel plant worker who makes one careless mistake after another while handling dangerous tools . Played strictly for laughs , it also served as a public safety announcement and was rightfully Oscar nominated in th... |
446,875 | 1,048,771 | 52,990 | 7 | Paul Muni as the last of a dying breed . . . and his last screen role . . . | PAUL MUNI could always be counted on to give an interesting performance , even if sometimes over-the-top ( as he was in A SONG TO REMEMBER as Chopin's mentor ) . But here , in his last gasp as a screen actor , he does himself proud in an Oscar-nominated performance . He's a Brooklyn doctor , a dedicated one with his ow... |
445,598 | 1,048,771 | 39,689 | 7 | The essential film noir . . . has everything the genre demands . . . | OUT OF THE PAST is like watching a textbook lesson in Film Noir 101 . It has so many layers of plots and sub-plots , so much rich B & W texture in Nicholas Musuraca's shadowy photography , so many ambiguous moments that keep you guessing what's around the corner , and so many memorable quotes in scene after scene that ... |
445,397 | 1,048,771 | 43,090 | 7 | Taut thriller maintains high degree of suspense . . . | UNION STATION is a briskly paced thriller laced with enough suspense to keep the viewer intrigued until the final shootout in a tunnel below the station where badman ( LYLE BETTGER ) must be tracked down by hard-boiled detective ( WILLIAM HOLDEN ) so that a blind girl ( ALLENE ROBERTS ) can be returned safely to her fa... |
447,557 | 1,048,771 | 12,532 | 7 | Visually impressive melodrama is wildly overacted but still compelling to watch . . . | ORPHANS OF THE STORM is quite an impressive looking silent film from D . W . Griffith , who was obviously the Cecil B . DeMille of his day . He has an instinct for showing surging crowd scenes involving all the unrest during the French Revolution and these scenes are highly detailed and very arresting visually . All th... |
446,198 | 1,048,771 | 43,132 | 7 | It's no " Laura " but it's good , gritty film noir . . . | WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS deserves to be a better known film directed by Otto Preminger , the man who gave the world LAURA . And this time , he's got the same co-stars : DANA ANDREWS and GENE TIERNEY . It must be said that Tierney here is under-used in what amounts to more of a supporting role while the spotlight goes to... |
447,563 | 1,048,771 | 57,334 | 7 | Brisk Agatha Christie mystery moves at a gallop . . . | This is possibly MARGARET RUTHERFORD's most satisfactory excursion into Agtha Christie-land and she's helped by a delightful Ron Goodwin score that emphasizes her character with an infectious main theme and the gorgeous B & W photography , full of sinister shadows and proper atmospheric effects . Furthermore , Miss Rut... |
446,586 | 1,048,771 | 416,449 | 7 | A striking visual feast and stunning audio experience . . . | No , I wasn't expecting " depth " to the characters nor was I expecting to see a documentary about the famous battle at Thermopylae - - and perhaps that's why I can happily state that I was caught up in the frenzy and excitement and visual splendor of 300 from the opening scene to the touching ending . King Leonidas ( ... |
448,079 | 1,048,771 | 65,988 | 7 | Dustin Hoffman in seriocomic western on events surrounding Custer . . . | Highly entertaining saga has Dustin Hoffman as the lone elderly survivor of the attack at Little Big Horn , recounting his life history to a skeptical historian - - and it's quite a story , beginning with the massacre of his family in an Indian attack as a ten year-old boy and his growing up among the Cheyennes who ado... |
447,440 | 1,048,771 | 43,067 | 7 | Well , shiver me timbers , another good pirate tale . . . | TREASURE ISLAND is a good example of Disney's way with live action when he began departing from his schedule of full-length animated features . His money at the time was tied up in the European market and he decided to make this version of the film in England with a splendid cast of actors and handsome use of Technicol... |
445,283 | 1,048,771 | 57,263 | 7 | Wood and McQueen are wonderful together in bittersweet comedy / drama . . . | NATALIE WOOD has probably never been more appealing than she is as a young Italian girl facing the problem of unwed motherhood after a brief affair with a man of equally modest means , STEVE McQUEEN . The simple story revolves around the situation of a girl whose pregnancy prompts her boyfriend to suggest an abortion b... |
446,980 | 1,048,771 | 35,413 | 7 | Enjoyable romantic comedy with the Mitch Leisen touch . . . | ROSALIND RUSSELL and FRED MacMURRAY have seldom had their flair for light comedy seen to better advantage than in TAKE A LETTER , DARLING in which the battle of the sexes involves Russell's career woman falling in love with her male secretary - - really more of a personal assistant here and one she hires to make deals ... |
446,294 | 1,048,771 | 35,414 | 7 | Tweety introduces that famous " putty tat " line . . . | This is one of the better Warner Bros . cartoons of the era ( ' 42 ) , with two cats patterned after Abbott and Costello ( Babbitt and Catstello ) , with Abbott trying to get Costello to pry a teeny bird ( who turns out to be Tweety Bird ) , out of his nest . The gimmicks Abbott uses to get Costello launched into space... |
445,401 | 1,048,771 | 1,175,518 | 7 | Informative featurette gives the background story on Laird Cregar . . . | Fascinating featurette is offered on the HANGOVER SQUARE DVD of the Fox film starring Laird Cregar , Linda Darnell and George Sanders and directed by John Brahm . This is a very informative short film that gives a detailed look at the brief film career of one of Hollywood's rising stars who met with an untimely death a... |
447,791 | 1,048,771 | 60,645 | 7 | A throwback to the weepies of the ' 40s . . . gives the tear ducts a workout . . . | LANA TURNER knew a good part when she saw it . And there was even a courtroom scene that she could savor while she recalled her own real - life courtroom drama a decade earlier . She digs into the script with all of her being and gives one of the strongest performances of her career . Unfortunately , her co-star , John... |
447,608 | 1,048,771 | 261,135 | 7 | Excellent featurette documentary on the ' Phantom of the Opera ' ( ' 43 ) DVD . . . | This is an impressive , detailed behind-the-scenes story on the various screen versions of PHANTOM OF THE OPERA , described by narrator Scott MacQueen as " a darkly romantic icon of the gaslight era . " The documentary is a look at the earlier versions of the Gaston Leroux story written in 1910 and made even more famou... |
445,610 | 1,048,771 | 67,185 | 7 | Eccentric comedy still has fresh appeal . . . | For sheer audacity , you have to congratulate the makers of HAROLD AND MAUDE for taking such a chance on this black comedy material and making it work , largely due to the title roles played so perfectly by RUTH GORDON and BUD CORT . The highly improbable story is entertaining enough to let anyone dismiss the flaws of ... |
445,419 | 1,048,771 | 253,556 | 7 | ( POSSIBLE SPOILER ) . . . Enough smoke and fire to satisfy even the most hardcore arsonists . . . | You have to give the writers credit for originality . No one expects to have a dragon tale set in the 21st century , present day London . And if ever a movie was dominated by spectacular special effects , this is the one . A scarier bunch of fire-breathing dragons I've never seen before , artfully constructed so as to ... |
447,790 | 1,048,771 | 456,392 | 7 | Worth watching before viewing the actual film . . . | What with interesting observations from Lincoln D . Hurst and other film historians , as well as amusing on the set comments from Nanette Fabray , this is a gorgeous addition to the DVD bonus features . Fabray was obviously in awe of beginning her film career with such biggies as Davis , Flynn and de Havilland , althou... |
446,194 | 1,048,771 | 278,500 | 7 | Charming comedy of manners played to the hilt by a wonderful cast . . . | I can't quibble with those who say this departs from the original material in some respects , because I never saw the original . All I know is I watched it tonight for the first time and found it completely charming , easy to watch , easy to enjoy and easy to love . RUPERT EVERETT was the standout for me , excellent fl... |
447,118 | 1,048,771 | 79,116 | 7 | Tough prison drama about escape from " the rock " . . . | When ALEC McGOOHAN , as the warden of Alcatraz , announces that " We don't make good people . We make good prisoners , " you know the convicts are in for a rough time from a man who is the equivalent of Captain Nigh when it comes to unreasonable punishment . The film is punishing too , in that it makes you feel the sta... |
446,725 | 1,048,771 | 64,117 | 7 | Breezy , witty fun-filled comedy from the Broadway hit . . . | When I saw LAUREN BACALL do CACTUS FLOWER on Broadway , I never dreamed that one day I would see an actress like INGRID BERGMAN playing the Bacall role on screen . But here Ingrid really lets her hair down for some good comedy moments as the dental nurse pretending to be WALTER MATTHAU's wife so he can go on with the f... |
447,542 | 1,048,771 | 985,699 | 7 | Taut thriller in the WWII vein about a failed plot to kill Hitler . . . | VALKYRIE accomplishes the mission it sets out to perform within a two hour running time . Under Bryan Singer's direction , it's a taut thriller bearing the outlines of a true story , handling a complex military plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler that depends on split-second timing to succeed . As we all know , it almost ... |
446,652 | 1,048,771 | 44,954 | 7 | The twist is hard to believe . . . but his is one hell of a ride . . . | Thanks to some taut direction by Richard Fleischer , some incredibly tense performances from CHARLES McGRAW and MARIE WINDSOR and some very atmospheric shots of narrow passageways , dining cars and Pullman berths aboard a speeding express , NARROW MARGIN emerges as a swiftly moving melodrama sure to capture your attent... |
446,407 | 1,048,771 | 20,979 | 7 | Sight gags and physical comedy rule the day . . . | After a painfully dull opening joke about a misplaced hat , HOG WILD turns out to be one of the best Laurel and Hardy shorts , in a brief amount of time able to spotlight all of the silly ingredients that made them so popular in the ' 30s . Stan comes upon Oliver climbing a ladder to install a radio aerial at the reque... |
446,580 | 1,048,771 | 40,087 | 7 | Edward G . Robinson in another powerhouse performance . . . | ALL MY SONS may have been slightly diluted for the screen as compared to the stage play which implicated corruption and wartime profiteering on a higher level than just one or two business men , but it's still powerful stuff and extremely well directed by Irving Reis . Individual scenes have a strength that is impressi... |
445,969 | 1,048,771 | 29,604 | 7 | Worth seeing for the cast alone . . . | STAGE DOOR was an old movie I'd heard of when I was a kid , so when it came to our local theater as part of a double-feature revival program , I couldn't resist having a peek at it . I was glad I did . I'm not a KATHARINE HEPBURN fan ( only like her in a few of her many , many films ) , but I thought she excelled in th... |
445,839 | 1,048,771 | 443,706 | 7 | Suspenseful thriller is based on true , unsolved case . . . excellent performances . . . | ZODIAC starts off with a bang , and then gets so bogged down in intense detective work that the thriller aspect is diluted by the time the first hour is over . Furthermore , since the case was never really solved , there's no real payoff at the end - - just more speculation . Despite this , it manages to hold the atten... |
447,403 | 1,048,771 | 36,172 | 7 | Wartime Washington was never really this much fun . . . | THE MORE THE MERRIER is one of many comedies exploiting the theme of crowded Washington during the WWII period - - and one of the best . Personally , I thought it worked best until the point where CHARLES COBURN ( in his Oscar-winning supporting role ) was booted from JEAN ARTHUR's apartment over reading her diary . Fr... |
446,475 | 1,048,771 | 109,831 | 7 | Hugh Grant establishes his persona in excellent British comedy . . . | This is one of the funniest , wittiest , cleverest comedy / romances to come out of Great Britain , moving at a quick pace through a series of scenes commemorating FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL , with a cast of wonderful British players headed by HUGH GRANT and American actress ANDIE MacDOWELL . The running joke seems to... |
445,441 | 1,048,771 | 343,354 | 7 | Dave O'Brien - - my favorite " fall guy " . . . | This is one of the best of the Pete Smith specialties starring former stuntman DAVE O'BRIEN as " Mr . Everyman . " In this one , he first copes with parking a car and manages to smash cars in the fore and aft position . Next , he decides to build a patio in his backyard . All he has to do is lay the cement . Not so sim... |
447,104 | 1,048,771 | 109,906 | 7 | Gripping police drama exposing corruption at L . A . precinct . . . | There's a strong resemblance to the much praised L . A . CONFIDENTIAL in this vivid story of crime and corruption on the police force , based partially on a true story involving these events . Basically , it's the tale of a black police rookie who tries to fit in by covering corrupt practices and tries to uncover the t... |
446,776 | 1,048,771 | 71,562 | 7 | Not quite up to the first Godfather film - - but chilling enough . . . | I don't feel I have to wipe everybody out . Just my enemies . So says Michael Corleone ( AL PACINO ) in THE GODFATHER : PART II . Pacino plays the part with somber seriousness that becomes a bit one dimensional by the time the film is midway over . Nor is the story as compelling as the first Godfather film . But you ... |
446,933 | 1,048,771 | 9,973 | 7 | Very amusing Harold Lloyd two-reel short . . . | There are three segments to this two-reel short , and each one has their highlight . It begins with HAROLD LLOYD as a struggling writer who can't pay the rent ( a flimsy amount of $3 . 70 is overdue ! ! ) and this leads to a boarding house sequence that has him avoiding the grim landlady and her strong partner bent on ... |
445,649 | 1,048,771 | 760,519 | 7 | Building of the New York Subway system makes fascinating story . . . | Fascinating documentary on the construction of the N . Y . subway which opened in 1903 . Includes the various accidents that made improvements necessary , the switch from steam engines to electric tracks , the stories that made newspaper headlines throughout the early part of the 1900s , and newsreel footage of various... |
445,968 | 1,048,771 | 40,427 | 7 | Richard Basehart as stone cold killer is very effective . . . | HE WALKED BY NIGHT is a neat little film noir filmed in semi-documentary style ( narration included ) , typical of several films from the ' 40s-era ( BOOMERANG , THE HOUSE ON 92ND STREET ) , taut with suspense lasting a brisk 79 minutes and released by Eagle-Lion , a small independent company . RICHARD BASEHART ( one o... |
446,295 | 1,048,771 | 456,689 | 7 | Warm tribute to Errol , Olivia and Raoul Walsh . . . | Although it's only nine minutes in length , TO HELL OR GLORY is a fitting tribute to the talents of ERROL FLYNN , OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND and RAOUL WALSH , with historians Lincoln D . Hurst , Robert Osborne and Rudy Behlmer all commenting on the overall merits of THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOTS ON , despite its lack of historic... |
447,577 | 1,048,771 | 408,242 | 7 | Well crafted documentary on a timeless Disney classic . . . | With the score of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST in the background , the documentary starts out with CELINE DION talking about the " making of a tale as old as time " and we're given bits of information about the film from the various artists and animators who worked so well on the Disney film . In other words , the segments are... |
447,355 | 1,048,771 | 51,207 | 7 | Hitchcock without the gimmicks . . . | THE WRONG MAN is a bleak Alfred Hitchcock movie filmed in suitably low-key style with crisp B & W photography and two very deeply felt performances by HENRY FONDA and VERA MILES . Hitch's fear of police ( traumatic experience as a youth ) serves him well in crafting the kind of intimidation a man feels when he's unjust... |
446,889 | 1,048,771 | 44,706 | 7 | Tightly constructed western with that unforgettable Dimitri Tiomkin song . . . | HIGH NOON impressed me years ago when I first saw it , less so today when viewed on TCM . Sure , GARY COOPER has the kind of noble , sturdy role he was always adept at playing and GRACE KELLY , in a less impressive role , does okay as his loyal sweetheart , but the whole thrust of the story - - and its theme of bravery... |
447,578 | 1,048,771 | 456,649 | 7 | High praise for most of the ingredients that went into " The Sea Hawk " . . . | This documentary starts with Korngold's rousing score beneath scenes of ERROL FLYNN as THE SEA HAWK , and then begins with narration by Lincoln Hurst , Rudy Behlmer and Robert Osborne , all of them full of praise for the classic swashbuckler that Warners was so capable of making . Noted are the sets which were leftover... |
445,985 | 1,048,771 | 44,672 | 7 | Colorful tale under the big top with DeMille and company . . . | Circus life takes center stage while the trite backstage story involves a three-way romance between CHARLTON HESTON , BETTY HUTTON and CORNEL WILDE that is only occasionally moving . Hutton downplays the boisterous side of her personality to give dimension to her role as Holly , conflicted by feelings for Wilde and Hes... |
447,290 | 1,048,771 | 40,367 | 7 | Unlikely setting for a World War II comedy are the ruins of Berlin . . . | Billy Wilder obviously had a cynical point of view in mind when he directed A FOREIGN AFFAIR and cast JEAN ARTHUR , MARLENE DIETRICH and JOHN LUND in the leads for a story about an American congresswoman ( Arthur ) investigating conditions for GIs in post-WWII Berlin . The rather bleak atmosphere seems to work against ... |
447,574 | 1,048,771 | 469,494 | 7 | A towering performance by Daniel Day-Lewis as corrupt oil man . . . | Blood , oil and religion seem to be the heated topics for this version of Upton Sinclair's novel " Oil " , and the presentation is starkly realistic from beginning to end , with DANIEL DAY-LEWIS giving another one of his towering performances in the central role of a corrupt , guilt-ridden man who can't talk about his ... |
446,958 | 1,048,771 | 20,686 | 7 | ( SPOILERS AHEAD ) . . . Powerful story is one of the screen's early " big house " prison melodramas . . . | So many high quality prison melodramas have been on the screen in the last few decades that this one - - made in 1930 - - has to be reviewed in the context of its time . As such , it's a well-written , powerful study of men behind bars , none of whom observes a code of conduct likely to make them good material for reha... |
446,183 | 1,048,771 | 40,321 | 7 | Handsome , tastefully produced romance with a warm glow . . . | The 1940s seemed to be the decade of the romantic " women's films " featuring stars like Bette Davis , Merle Oberon , Olivia de Havilland and others . And Samuel Goldwyn had the good taste to hire the best script writers , the best cinematographers , the best musicians , and the best available actors to play in all of ... |
445,880 | 1,048,771 | 44,744 | 7 | Wilde's comedy of errors is in good hands . . . What's in a name ? . . . | THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST has had several reincarnations on film but this British version from the ' 50s , directed by Anthony Asquith and starring MICHAEL REDGRAVE ( as one of the men assuming the name Earnest ) , is one of the most satisfying because of a splendid cast . The Victorian comedy of manners includes... |
445,720 | 1,048,771 | 44,586 | 7 | Two out of three , not bad . . . for ENCORE . . . | Another Somerset Maugham short story anthology , getting off to a bad start with the first story THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER not exactly first rate but amusing , due to the performances of n'er-do-well NIGEL PATRICK as the philandering brother who ends up marrying the third richest girl in the world much to the annoyan... |
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